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Government 'Of The People, For The People' Returns To America

Diane Tucker | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama White House, Diane Tucker, Alternative Energy, Barack Obama, Halliburton, Obama First 100 Days, On the Street Where You Live, Cnn, Obama Administration, Obama Transition, 2008 Election, Politics News

Our new president didn't have a powerful father to place him in things, or get him out. He worked hard to become the 44th president. He is of the people, which tends to make a person for the people.

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The Audacity of Hopelessness

Erica Heller | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Family, 2008 Election, Halliburton, Obama Inauguration, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Michelle Obama, Politics News

Curmudgeons or not, unseemly right now or not, some things are worth staying angry about, even as we pat ourselves on the back, smile broadly at tomorrow and turn the page.

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Don't Tell, But the Military Is Now Recruiting Foreigners

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Bush Administration, Dennis Baron, Department of Defense, Blackwater, Halliburton, Bob Gates, Civilian Contractors, Enlistment Bonuses, Enlisting Felons, Military Recruiting, Border Fence, Translators, Major Margaret Witt, Politics News

Foreigners on student or work visas are probably at least as good a bet as the serious felons the armed forces have been reduced to chasing after. Provided they're straight, of course.

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KBR Sued for Giving Soldiers Ice with 'Traces of Body Fluids and Putrefied Remains'

ZP Heller | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Toxic Water, Iraq for Sale, Kbr, Iraq, Joshua Eller, Ben Carter, Halliburton, Politics News

The former Halliburton subsidiary also failed to manage a medical incinerator properly, disposing medical waste and human remains in an open air burn pit.

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Halliburton Disappointed, Concerned About Falling Gas Prices

Footnoted | Michelle Leder | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Halliburton Profits, Gas Prices, Finance, Halliburton, Oil, Oil Prices, Personal Finance, Business News

Anyone who drives a car regularly has noticed that gas prices have fallen pretty sharply over the past month -- something that fellow Brandeis grad Th...

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Bush Administration Moves to Defend Halliburton and Cheney

Ray Hanania | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kbr, Kuwait, Peoria Trial, Judge McDade, Halliburton, George W. Bush, Afghanistan, Jeff Mazon, Iraq, Dick Cheney, Contract Abuse, Politics News

The Bush administration moved to prevent Jeff Mazon from making a defense that would most certainly shift the blame from charges he took a bribe in th...

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Bush Does a 9/11 Replay in Asking for Unprecedented Powers and Unprecedented Budget

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, Coalition Provisional Authority, Political Norms, Infrastructure, Bailout, Economic Crisis, Halliburton, George W. Bush, Tax Cuts, 9/11, Politics News

What is shocking about the presentation by Bush -- and the deal that is unfolding is that we don't see any acceptance of responsibility for the failure of his team's stewardship of the economy.

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What Did My Son Die For?

John Scripsick | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq War, John McCain, Blackwater, Halliburton, Enron, President Bush, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Home News

Author's son died in Iraq. He died because of the Bush administration's shoddy anti-terrorism operations before 9/11, and after 9/11 so fat cats could become richer.

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The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Transportation, Immigration, Iraq, Race, Democratic Party, Sarah Palin, Stem Cell Research, Iran, Military, Phil Gramm, Carly Fiorina, Technology, Republican Party, African-American Issues, Abortion, Halliburton, Science, Free Trade, Hispanic Issues, Texas, Uzbekistan, Pennsylvania, Capitalism, Barack Obama, College, Oil, Health Care, Scranton, Energy, Gay Marriage, Economy, Politics News

Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.

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Former Halliburton Subsidiary Chief To Get Jailtime For Cheney-Era Corruption

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 10.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Halliburton Corruption, Jack Stanley, Kellog Brown and Root, Halliburton, Nigeria Natural Gas, Liquefied Natural Gas, Nigeria, Albert "Jack" Stanley, Business News

WASHINGTON — A former chief executive of construction firm KBR Inc. has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in connection with the company...

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Tit for Tat

Giles Slade | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

In the run-up to the federal election, signs of the republican's self-confidence are, to paraphrase Pete Townsend, 'f-f-f-fading away'. But let me re...

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What Does "Change" Really Mean?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Party, Credit Card Companies, Change, The Walton Family, Barack Obama, Halliburton, John McCain, Taxes, Free Markets, Capitalism, Politics News

Barack Obama needs to stop talking about nebulous, floating on a cloud change. And start talking about how he is going to kick these people's asses. We need someone to take our government back.

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The October Surprise Shouldn't Come as One

Trey Ellis | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Kbr, Blackwater, Halliburton, Oil Profits, Chuck Hagel, Jim Webb, 2008 Election, War Profiteering, Barack Obama, Politics News

What will it be? A nod to Israel to bomb Iran? An American-engineered coup in Pakistan? Whatever it is, it is coming and if Obama intends to weather the dirty trick he will have to be prepared.

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Whose Vision -- Cusack's Or Bush's? The Privatization Of War

Howie Klein | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York Times Private Contracters, Cheney Halliburton, Private Contractors, Halliburton, John Cusack War Inc., War Inc., New York Times, Iraq, Politics News

John Cusack's movie about a future fictitious occupation of a fictitious country, Turaqistan, is premised on the privatization of ... well, pretty much everything.

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Iraq War Profiteers: 25 Companies Who Benefit From The War

Business Pundit | Posted 08.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Iraq War, Warwire, Halliburton, Iraq, War Profiteering, Dick Cheney, Business News

The Iraq war is many things to different people. It is called a strategic blunder and a monstrous injustice and sometimes even a patriotic mission, mu...

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Why John McCain's "Surge" Success Story is a Lie

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Surge, John McCain, Halliburton, Bush Iraq, War in Iraq, John McCain Iraq Surge, McCain Iraq, John Mccain Surge, John Mccain the Surge, Mccaine and Surge, Politics News

McCain's belief that the surge "won the war" contradicts the substance of the "status of force" agreement the Bush administration has been trying to ram down the Iraqi government's throat.

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The New Workers Uniting Union Means Global Solidarity

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Uk, Multinational Corporations, Titanium Metals Corp., Economy, Alcoa, Workers Uniting, International Paper, Amicus Section, China, Georgia Pacific, Dick Cheney, Kimberly Clark, Unite the Union, Don Imus, Derek Simpson, Ireland, Dubai, Corporate Globalization, Halliburton, United Steelworkers, Justice Department, Las Vegas, Kuwait, Ceo, Global Union, Securities and Exchange Commission, Alcan, Timet, Pilkington, Rexam, Kbr, Business News

Global corporations have set up a situation in which they are herding workers in a stampede to the bottom. So we created the first global union to face off unregulated multinational corporations.

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Obama's Money, Take Two

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Goldman Sachs, 2008 Election, Halliburton, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Politics News

I desperately want Obama to win, and I hope Wall Street gives him $10 million more. Having Goldman Sachs run the government would be a huge step up from having Halliburton run it.

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McClellan: Cheney's Book Should Be Titled "I Upped Halliburton's Income - So Up Yours"

Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Scott Mcclellan Dick Cheney, Scott Mcclellan, Scott McClellan Book, Halliburton, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Scott McClellan, speaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, took another jab at old boss, Vice President Dick Cheney. From The San Francisco...

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Army Official Fired For Refusing To Pay Questionable Contractor

The New York Times | James Risen | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, War Contractor, Kbr, Iraq War Spending, Fired Officer, Army, Military Spending, Questionable Contracting, Halliburton, Accountability, Army Officer Fired, Contractor, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying ...

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Blackmail

Mark Kleiman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Privatization, Kbr, Supporting the Troops, Cheney, Halliburton, Politics News

The Halliburton board knew what it was doing when it gave Dick Cheney $80 million he wasn't contractually entitled to as he moved from its executive suite to the White House.

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The Pentagon's Fifteen Billion Dollar Pirate Plunder

Paige Donner | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon Audit, Contractors, Congressional Oversight Committee, Free Government Information, Pigs at the Trough, Unaccounted for Expenditures, Rep. Henry Waxman, Halliburton, Senator Obama, U.S. Taxpayer Dollars, Institute for Policy Studies, Iraq, U.S. Army Soldiers, Clean Contracting Amendment, Federal Regulations, Fraud, Kbr, War on Iraq, Army, Fifteen Billion Dollars, CBS News, Mary Ugone, New York Times, Washington Post, Internal Controls Over Payments Made in Iraq Kuwait and Egypt, Misappropriation, American Idol, Seized Iraqi Oil Money, Indiana Jones Sequel, Kellogg Brown Root, Cash, Politics News

(No, this is NOT an Indiana Jones Sequel) Yes, you read that correctly. American taxpayers have paid out $15 Billion U.S. dollars in unaccounted for...

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The Loss of Democracy: The Deeper Meaning of McClellan's Revelations of Imperial Deceit & Media Submissiveness

Dan Kovalik | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

The result of the White House spin, and the complicity of the press corp. in it, has been the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. servicemen and women and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

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Halliburton Bids $3.36 Billion Cash For British Oil Services Firm

AP | JANE WARDELL | Posted 05.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Halliburton, Expro, Business News

LONDON — In the hot energy sector, a rapid-fire bidding contest broke out Friday between a London-led private equity consortium and Halliburton ...

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John Cusack's War: The Actor Battles to Un-embed Hollywood With His New Film, War, Inc.

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Iraq War, John Cusack's War Inc., Jeremy Pikser, Hilary Duff, Blackwater, John Cusack War Inc., Halliburton, War Inc., Iraq, Hollywood, Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, John Cusack, Entertainment News

Cusack's new Film, War Inc., is a powerful, visionary response to the cheerleading culture of the corporate media and a pliant Hollywood afraid of its own shadow.

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